TechImpact

JULY 30, 2014

This is a question I ask myself, and web masters around the world ask themselves, on a daily basis. The website measurement and analytics tool serves as a dipstick into the effectiveness of your current marketing strategies, and into the effectiveness of your website as a whole. Image courtesy of Google User Content. Piece of cake.

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Care2

APRIL 18, 2011

One of the big questions I often get asked by nonprofit campaigners is “how do I know if our blog and social media are succeeding and resonating with people?&# Great question. The very first thing that nonprofits should do is setup a tracking system to measure their blogs and social media. Postrank Analytics.

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NetWits

JULY 10, 2012

link] and measure your sharing effectiveness. You’ll even get real-time click stats! 4) Measure and Analyze - Google Analytics. Ask Questions (true/false, fill in the blank, yes/no, Try “Fill in the Blank” Posts. First, set up a bit.ly This will allow you to shorten your URLs (e.g. Next, set up a Seesmic account.

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Achieve

APRIL 28, 2022

Ask supporters open-ended questions. Question: When there are so many different social media platforms—not to mention the old standbys of email and texts—how do you reach your followers? Ask supporters open-ended questions. Asking questions to your supporters gives them an added sense of being involved in your mission.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 8, 2011

That’s the question I asked this morning on Qriously, a new application that measures public sentiment, in real time. It works by replacing ads with questions in smartphone and tablet apps. I’ve run three questions so far, and here’s some of the insights to the process: What influences your charitable giving?

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2012

You should spend some time doing a little research and browse some of the Pinterest stat sites to help you get a sense of the users and whether or not Pinterest is a good fit for your content. Beth Kanter. Beth's Blog. Here are 5 I came across.

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Everyaction

JANUARY 16, 2018

Follow along, email us your questions , and let us know what you’d like to hear about! From your board members requesting the latest donor stats to your digital director asking for email conversion rates, tracking your data can be hard. All you have to do is click drag, and drop the metrics you’re measuring.

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Care2

OCTOBER 15, 2013

But are these stats meaningful? Do these stats show your boss about how your organization is meeting its mission and making an actual impact? That’s why you need to change the way you measure social media and declare a war on vanity metrics. Why is Social Media Data Important?

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

But most importantly, we love for these sessions to be interactive, so feel free to chat in your questions and comments along the way. There’s a chat box and a questions box. If you use the questions box, it might be a little bit easier to call out your question, but we’d love to hear from you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2008

When looking at our google analytic stats, I usually note the number of visitors, sites that people come from and keywords. But sometimes, those stats don't really tell us anything. Twitter - to announce new blog posts, breaking news related to our work, and to ask supporters (followers) questions to get to know them better.

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Whole Whale

MAY 17, 2023

Start by asking questions. Things fearful people might say… “I told the thing to create a blog post about trees and it was super generic” “I asked for stats on the recent thing and it was totally wrong” “I ask it to make a picture of a cat and it was kinda lame” In these cases, yes the results will be terrible. What does this tool do?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2007

Web Analytics As Simple Gifts To Measure Mission 3. Web Analytics is the objective tracking, collection, measurement, reporting and analysis of quantitative Internet data to optimize websites and web marketing initiatives. The 3 Most Frequently Asked Google Analytics Questions. Possible Working Titles: 1. Analytics This!

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Having tools in place to help you monitor, measure, and evaluate your work in real time will help you be more successful with your campaign, better engage with the community, and make more lasting change in the long run. After three presentations in such a short amount of time there was going to certainly be questions.

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Care2

MARCH 3, 2011

Nonprofit campaigners have a gazillion tools to choose from that they can use for online outreach, social media, measuring metrics, updating their website, and much more. But are most of them useful to you? Are they efficient? Do they pull the data you need to run a better campaign and engage your activists and donors?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

To create a listening post to understand the questions and concerns from nonprofits about implementing an effective Facebook presence. Measuring this requires some surveys of fans as well as counting the number of insights gleaned from posts and discussions from Fans. I have not done this yet.

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NTEN

JUNE 14, 2012

That’s just a taste to whet your appetite - we’ve got lots more stats you can use to measure your organization’s Facebook page in the full report, plus key recommendations to help you craft a cutting-edge social media program! Have questions about the Benchmarks Extra: Facebook report? Hope to see you then!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2011

I shared a link to the site on my Facebook Page with a question about its usefulness (perhaps minus one of the bogus metrics). Number of followers has become a benchmark stat like the number of hits on our web pages used to be. Certainly, some subtle peer pressure to do your homework. And it’s not very useful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2008

a question asked by the Give and Take blog. Avi Kaplan has published some basic stats from the recent Tweetsgiving Campaign that raised over $10,000 in 48 hours right before and during Thanksgiving to build a classroom in Tanzania. In the menatime, here's a few twitter stat tools from Brian Solis's awesome list. Does it exist?

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Connection Cafe

JULY 22, 2013

To establish benchmarks for measuring success of our design efforts. Research Questions. Once we’ve set the timeframe, we then start digging into the data to answer some key questions: What are some benchmark stats for improvement? To understand how visitors interact with the site. Methodology. Overall site visits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2010

It's the dance floor and the balcony - both strategy and tactics but deployed in a lab with focused experiments, measurement, reflection and learning from peers. I've been collecting secondary research and stats on social media usage and typically share synthesis of the most recent information in every workshop. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2007

He is suggesting two metrics for museums (which are also recommended by the others talking about this topic in other disciplines): In our paper Jim and I avoided site traffic and instead proposed that two better measures of success for museum blogs were citations/linkbacks and user comments. To measure Citations I use Technorati rank.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2009

Flickr photo from Wesley Fryer Stephen Downes points to this post by Wesley Fryer, " Feedburner Stats Drop After Google Account Merge" I haven't yet merged my account and all of sudden my counts dropped 1,400 subscribers. There are other ways to measure your RSS reach. I can't imagine that 1,400 people unsubscribed in a day?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 8, 2013

If you share links via social media, make sure the links are mobile friendly given the stats on how people are consuming social networks info on their mobiles. ” I love these interactive sessions because the questions always give me great ideas for blog posts – so stay tuned.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 16, 2016

As I mentioned in my previous two blog posts about the GMN 2016 annual conference , we asked conference attendees to respond to the following question: Where are you on your journey to measuring outcomes and impact? We need more evaluation and measurement as this is vital to moving a cause forward and the only way to improve.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

We'll talk through the tools and strategies you can use to get the answers to these questions. Laura asked me to join her to demo Google Analytics and answers questions and it is great to collaborate with colleagues, you always learn something. Pinpoints to corrective measures taken from initial strategy path to current efforts.

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Achieve

AUGUST 19, 2015

These are just a few of the things an organization’s website should have: Contact Information: names, emails and phone numbers, in case you have questions. Stories And Stats. It is always great to see that a nonprofit is measuring its work through quantitative data. If you’re looking to learn and do more, just ask.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2007

Conversation Rate (measuring success in a social medium). measuring your impact on the world!). I asked the question on my blog: Is there some way to consolidate the feeds into so they can be tracked in feedburner and not disrupt current subscribers (make the unsubscribe and resubscribe?) Technorati ???Authority??? Authority???

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Connection Cafe

JULY 17, 2013

The first metric that we need to rethink is measuring success based on the percentage of participants we’re converting into fundraisers. In the meantime, I want you to think about my next question. Benchmarks & Stats Event Fundraising Friends Asking Amy Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Traditional Events' Is it working?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2008

s choice award Number of youtube video views of winning submission MEASUREMENT TOOLS - tangible Sourced links for new list names from marketing ??? to quantify ROI Page views from our stats program & Video view count from youtube ??? to quantify engagement PROCESS / STRATEGY Measuring buzz -link love ???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2009

I track two hard data points: RSS subscriber growth over time as well as the feed delivery stats (email versus reader). Next, you need to know the right metric(s), the tool or combination of tools to collect the data, and how the tools measure the metric. There are other ways to measure your RSS reach. If not, why?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

what things need to be measured. Think about which things you really need to track and measure those, not everything you could possibly track. Sarah - share by email because we are an online organization, can have a spreadsheet with stats and how they are growing, organization wide as well as campaigns, etc. industry benchmarks.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

I don’t know what the formal stat is on this, but I know that I’m much more likely to get a fast response if I text someone rather than call them or email them. New productivity measurement tools like MySammy measures a teleworker’s productivity level each day. Mobile Addiction. The downside?

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NTEN

MAY 9, 2011

They are the result of research — measuring something quantitatively or qualitatively, formally or informally; usually involving a question, a purpose, and by necessity a methodology and instrument. All data depend on measurement, even data as common and seemingly objective as the weather. What if I don't speak loudly enough?

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 31, 2013

An online webinar would allow an opportunity for a forum to feature the tools available, offer some fundraising best practices, and provide an opportunity for your fundraisers to ask questions. Additionally, a series of emails could be sent targeting fundraisers who are showing as not using these tools.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 18, 2016

Donor retention numbers are in the toilet across the board (the latest stat I heard was 46%). Set specific, measurable goals for each one of these based on historical data, and predicting success will get easier. Here are some questions you can ask yourself to noodle around on to get some fresh perspective on things.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

In the comments of a post I wrote titled " Reports of Social Networking's Death Are Exaggerated ," Paul Caplan from Content to Be Different said I think the point about measurement/evaluation is vital as long as we don't get hung up on stats etc. My question is how are you collecting and using qualitative data?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

The key takeaway for me is the whole point about the need for new metrics to measure learning from games. There was some push back from someone in the audience "How can we measure virtual worlds when we really haven't yet figured out what works and what doesn't. Partners in Learning program -- gave stats. We need metrics!

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